Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are, in truth, force.

- James, Henry

Best Quotes about Ideas

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.